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Workshop - Unfinished Business, Practical Design Fiction: Creating Artifacts for Understanding the FutureThursday, September 30, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET)Toronto, Ontario |
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Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business Events are monthly lectures and workshops co-organized and designed by Torch Innovation, Normative Design, and Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.
The lectures share perspectives on creativity, design and innovation
and the accompanying workshops provide attendees with practical skills
that they can use in their teams and organizations.
Unfinished Business Workshop - Practical Design Fiction: Creating Artifacts for Understanding the Future (September 30, 2010 from 10 am to 4 pm)
Can you imagine a time when you created the future for yourself, your work and your clients? Picture prototyping possible futures based on what you know, plus a lot of imagination and team work. Learn to do it today with the Design Fiction workshop, which provides us with a way of understanding possible futures through the creation of future artifacts like prototypes, models and stories that can make the future, its use cases and opportunities more tangible. This workshop will introduce you to the thinking and approaches that designers can access with design fiction and provide hands on experience with exploring the future. Scott, Matthew and Lindsay will share their thinking and experiences with design fiction, how they’re using it to frame problems and understand opportunities, and how they’ve used it help clients with both strategic foresight and tactical design work.
This five hour workshop will provide attendees with a clear understanding of the potential of design fiction and how to use it effectively. Using a combination of case studies, examples of tools and techniques and hands-on practice, the workshop will give attendees a solid grounding in the history and theory of design fiction as well as its emerging use in applied settings. Above all, the workshop will engage and inspire attendees by showing them how they can successfully innovate by “making the future” today.
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About the Workshop Leaders:
Scott Smith, Changeist
Scott is the founder, principal and vision behind Changeist, a foresight, strategy and innovation lab created to find opportunities and develop new market spaces where technology and emerging behaviors intersect. He has over 15 years of experience as a futurist and strategist at global research firms, developing new tools for capturing and mapping insights. Prior to founding Changeist, he was a futurist with a Washington-based consulting firm, helping brands such as Nokia, Honda, Herman Miller, P&G, and McDonald’s anticipate change and build roadmaps to better futures. Scott has spoken at events such as LIFT08 and LIFT07 in Geneva, and 2007's SxSW.
Scott is the founder, principal and vision behind Changeist, a foresight, strategy and innovation lab created to find opportunities and develop new market spaces where technology and emerging behaviors intersect. He has over 15 years of experience as a futurist and strategist at global research firms, developing new tools for capturing and mapping insights. Prior to founding Changeist, he was a futurist with a Washington-based consulting firm, helping brands such as Nokia, Honda, Herman Miller, P&G, and McDonald’s anticipate change and build roadmaps to better futures. Scott has spoken at events such as LIFT08 and LIFT07 in Geneva, and 2007's SxSW.
Matthew Milan: Normative Design
A design and digital industry veteran, Matthew is an interaction designer with a background in strategy, environmental planning and spatial technology. Prior to founding Normative Design, he worked in management, design strategy and interaction design roles for digital agencies and technology startups in the finance, spatial technology and knowledge management industries.
Lindsay Ellerby: Normative Design
Lindsay is a researcher, designer and strategist working on problems at the overlap between
people and digital technology. She currently focuses on research and design work for a diverse
range of clients include health care organizations, urban development firms and technology
startups. Lindsay started her career as a content analyst before expanding her repertoire to include
information architecture, interaction design and design research. She has lead wide range of
customer experience projects over the years including interaction design for online
applications, leading a $1MM ethnographic research study for commercial banking products,
and experience strategy development for Fortune 500 corporations.
people and digital technology. She currently focuses on research and design work for a diverse
range of clients include health care organizations, urban development firms and technology
startups. Lindsay started her career as a content analyst before expanding her repertoire to include
information architecture, interaction design and design research. She has lead wide range of
customer experience projects over the years including interaction design for online
applications, leading a $1MM ethnographic research study for commercial banking products,
and experience strategy development for Fortune 500 corporations.
When & Where
Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab), OCAD
205 Richmond Street
Suite 7410, 4th Floor
Toronto,
Ontario M5V 1V3
Canada
Thursday, September 30, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET)
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At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn. We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.